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Hey Moab.

I don't quite follow and depends on what you are trying to achieve. Is the water supplied by a pump to your apartment or gravity fed? The size of the blue tank you describe sounds like around 2,000 litres and sounds like it's reliant on the pump in the well to fill it. Is that your tank or supply for many apartments?

Here we are well water and good for showering, brushing teeth, clothes washing and kitchen sinks, 5 bathrooms and 2 kitchens as well as a dozen garden taps,,,,, we don't drink it and rely on the refill station cleaning and supplying our 20 litre blue containers for that.

8 years and our well has always had plenty of water and the only failures have been the shore power going out constantly and once the pump failing due to break down, We had a new spare and simply swapped, for 18 months we are stand alone solar and the grid is switched off. Always have a new pump and controller sitting in the garage just in case.

Good luck.

Cheers, Steve.

Bigpearl said . . . . I don't quite follow and depends on what you are trying to achieve. Is the water supplied by a pump to your apartment or gravity fed? The size of the blue tank you describe sounds like around 2,000 litres and sounds like it's reliant on the pump in the well to fill it. Is that your tank or supply for many apartments?
Here we are well water and good for showering, brushing teeth, clothes washing and kitchen sinks, 5 bathrooms and 2 kitchens as well as a dozen garden taps,,,,, we don't drink it and rely on the refill station cleaning and supplying our 20 litre blue containers for that.
8 years and our well has always had plenty of water and the only failures have been the shore power going out constantly and once the pump failing due to break down, We had a new spare and simply swapped, for 18 months we are stand alone solar and the grid is switched off. Always have a new pump and controller sitting in the garage just in case.

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Moab what Steve failed to mention is his stash of JD if everything else fails.

I'm just wondering what the best 170/200 plastic water tank is? With a spigot? Without?聽 On a stand, not on a stand? Which one do you prefer and why?

To put it simply this is a back up water storage. I'm just trying to figure out which one to buy? Or whether to add a spigot to it or not? Or anything else I'm not thinking of.

I have good well water that is pumped into the large blue water tank on my dirty kitchen. It supplies my own apt only. Landlord says it supplies water to apt with or without electricity. But it is not elevated. So I'm not quite sure how it does that.

Regardless, in a power outage or emergency, once the blue tank is empty I am out of water. The tank is refilled with an electric pump from the well. So I just want to have some extra 20l water jugs. And a 170 or 200l extra water tank.

I guess there are only a couple barrels in that size to choose from. I could connect it to the rain water collection spout that is already installed in the gutter. And/or add a spigot to the bottom of the barrel.

Yes Bob the JD is more important than a 20/30 buck 200 litre drum and a dipper.

We had 2/3 days without water when the power died several years ago before solar and simply bucketed water from the well to the 60 litre lidded drums and put them into the bathrooms for a dipper bath, toilets and teeth. Dish washing as well, worked for us as does the JD and plenty of pesos in the safe.

Cheers, Steve.

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Thanks man. 馃憤

Larger then what your inquiring about, but We Located Food Grade IBC tanks. Fill em up, add a splash of bleach and seal, lasts a couple of years before water needs to be replaced if not used. Then like Bigpearl stated above, Buckets and Dippers work fine when needed. Most food grade IBC tanks have only been used once and usually had some various types of Syrup inside etc, at least the ones I found.